Hacker News: machinate

New comment by machinate in "Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies"

machinate — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:24:50 +0000

Rejection sensitivity may be the reason I detest to-do lists. The lists inevitably languish and slowly turn into a perpetual reminder of who I haven't become, i.e. a rejection from past-me.

New comment by machinate in "UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)"

machinate — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:23:43 +0000

Very pertinent, good eye.

If they are suitably random then this scheme seems to check out, but you're going to need some barbed wire and some inspiration from these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... on anything that can generate v7 IDs.

New comment by machinate in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

machinate — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:27:50 +0000

Apparently ad blockers can interfere with key view metrics.

Unclear what premium uses to disburse the 55% share that goes to creators; hopefully it's not those ones.

New comment by machinate in "Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link"

machinate — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:37:25 +0000

They usually don't let you deposit checks via web app.

New comment by machinate in "Recreating the US/* time zone situation"

machinate — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 23:47:51 +0000

Are you saying they should always be present? Or only when the condition takes multiple lines; i.e. do you take issue with the ifs in zone_name_pref too?

Personally I think the indentation does a good enough job here.

New comment by machinate in "Recreating the US/* time zone situation"

machinate — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:28:56 +0000

What issue are you taking with the code? Line breaks in the condition?

Presumably the last if statement in the diff.

New comment by machinate in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

machinate — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:50:44 +0000

Right, you sniped my edit. I don't know why I gave up my hn delay setting...

New comment by machinate in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

machinate — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:30:20 +0000

Easy is almost an understatement; it's Alt+Hyphen. [Edit: My bad that's en-dash, can't tell the difference in this monospaced text field. Em-dash you have to hold shift.]

I guess on Windows it's Alt+0,1,5,1 on a numpad. Or you copy+paste from Character Map.

New comment by machinate in "Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript"

machinate — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:04:42 +0000

I was convinced Firefox didn't support rendering partial HTML at all, but it turns out it just waits for two separate chunks to arrive before rendering. Queer.

Can't find any documentation on this online.

New comment by machinate in "Autopsy of an LHC Beam Dump"

machinate — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:35:11 +0000

In Steins;Gate (VN/anime) a fictional CERN is the main antagonist https://steins-gate.fandom.com/wiki/SERN

Just a shot of the LHC though, no other scenes with their facilities.

Apparently CERN also appears its sister series Robotics;Notes, but I might play it someday so I won't spoil myself on how.